Fall 2020
VOLUME 18/NUMBER 4
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Connecticut Explored
CONNECTICUT HISTORY, ONE GOOD STORY AFTER ANOTHER
IN THIS ISSUE: 75th Anniversary of World War II > Serving in Planes, Tanks & Ships > A Child’s View of War > Prosecuting War Crimes > The Remarkable Sigrid Schultz > 100 Episodes of Grating the Nutmeg!
ON THE COVER: Children stage a patriotic demonstration, Southington, 1942. photo: Fenno Jacobs, Office of War Information, Library of Congress
Table of Contents
9 Hog River Journal: Commemorating World War II
By Elizabeth J. Normen
10 Letters, etc.
13 From the State Historian: Connecticut’s First World War II Hero
By Walter W. Woodward
14 The Kid in Upper 4
The New Haven Railroad’s public relations juggernaut.
By Laura Smith
20 Connecticut Veterans Tell Their Stories
Serving their country, in their own words.
By Jillian Maynard
26 A Jewish Child’s Experience of War
By Leon Chameides
30 Glider Pilot Rollin Fowler’s Daring Escape
By Gregg Mangan
32 Grating the Nutmeg—100 Episodes!
34 The Dragon from Westport
Journalist Sigrid Schultz infiltrates the Nazis.
By Ramin Ganeshram, Nicole Carpenter, and Sara Krasne
38 Thomas Dodd & the Nuremberg Trials
The FBI staff lawyer from Connecticut seeks justice.
By Christopher Dodd, Owen Doremus, and Betsy Pittman
46 A Sound They’ll Never Forget
By Emily Clark
48 Obey Your Air Raid Warden
By Ben Gammell
50 Site Lines: Monument to Connecticut’s Borinqueneers
By W. Phillips Barlow
52 Dependable Engines Prepare for War
By Walter W. Woodward
54 CT History for Kids: The Children’s Salvage Army
56 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
63 Afterword